If You're Going My Way, I'll Walk With You

N ovember comes And November goes, With the last red berries And the first white snows. With night coming early, And dawn coming la...

It's an evening for dress-up play for kids of all ages, as they say. Fog blew in in the late afternoon, making everything clammy, close ...

 Well, Saturday night we went to a Halloween party that got pretty ... interesting.  It wasn't loud or boisterous.  But there were comin...

 A relic from a country now one with Nineveh and Tyre, existing today in name only.

 A scene from Operation Earnest Will during the forgotten "tanker war" of the mid-1980s. I like this painting.  It reminds me that...

 

 

 

 

 I made this about half a dozen years ago, and back then I really was proud of how far I had come in my personal journey, and what I had ach...

 

 My guy just loves it when I wear his shirts, as I've mentioned in an earlier post, and he loves taking photos of me wearing them, espec...

A reader of this blog (Yes! They exist!) asked me why I picked the name for it that I did.  The reason is pretty simple --  But I'm...

    “There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We peopl...

The other day I posted Ernest Hemingway's list of 16 favorite novels, or recommended novels...whatever...although one was a poetry coll...

But, by God, these days you had better pretend to care -- and care with enthusiasm.  Or else.  And the "or else" is getting mor...

Why is it easier to feel sad than to feel happy?  Is the world really that much of a disappointment, full of so much pain, grief, disappoint...

September was when it began. Locusts dying in the fields; our dogs Silent, mov...

  If the government won't enforce civil peace ....

File under what was I thinking?

Take selfies and post them to Instagram!  Live stream to your fan boys!  Take requests! Watch the money roll in!  Well...maybe that wou...

How many have you read?  I've read 10 -- well, I haven't read all of the Oxford Book of English Verse, but that's not really ...

Good-bye August, good-bye summer, Shorter days are such a bummer.

Stephen kissed me in the spring,     Robin in the fall,     But Colin only looked at me     And never kissed at all.     St...

He couldn’t get enough of them: those dusty landscapes on the other side of the screen, men on horses seeking justice or revenge. All ...

"Our Banner in the Sky" by Frederic Edwin Church I t is a strange thing — to be an American. Neithe...

Our father owned a star, and by its light we lived in father’s house and slept at night. The tragedy of life, like death and war, ...

The late Gracie Allen was a very lucid comedienne, Especially in the way that lucid means shining and bright. What her husban...